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I was fourteen and at a sleepover when the cult drank poison. The sleepover mom turned on the TV and said \u201cOh my lord, Mary, would you look at this? It\u2019s the feds is what, and a bomb, right out there where you come from.\u201d But it wasn\u2019t the feds, and it wasn\u2019t a bomb. It was us. We were destined to die. I watched it burn, and listened to the news call us a cult, which was not what we called ourselves. We called ourselves Heaven\u2019s Avengers. I watched it for a while, and then I threw up hamburger casserole. | Copyright 2016 by Maria Dahvana Headley. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices